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This invention relates to remediation of environmental contamination. More particularly, the invention relates to methods for accelerating or enhancing in situ dehalogenation of nonaqueous halogenated solvents in ground water. These methods involve adding to the contaminated ground water a composition of matter that bo... | {
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Hydraulically actuated transmissions have sealed cavities for actuating the shift mechanism. Rod seals are provided that engage longitudinally shifted shift rails to maintain the hydraulic pressure within the sealed cavities. The rod seals are received within a bore and have a seal lip that engages the shift rail. Prio... | {
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1. Field of the Description
The present description relates, in general, to displays such as those used to provide digital signage, and, more particularly, to systems and methods for enhancing backlighting levels (or illumination levels) and/or content provided (e.g., display content or displayed content) with digital ... | {
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It is generally known to treat the surfaces of metals, such as zinc, cadmium, or aluminum with aqueous solutions that include hexavalent chromium, which contain chemicals that dissolve the surface of the metal and form insoluble films known as “chromate conversion coatings.” These hexavalent chromium-containing coating... | {
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Many compounds having basic skeleton of pyridonecarboxylic acid are known to be useful synthetic antibacterials for their excellent antibacterial properties and wide antibacterial spectrum. Among such compounds, norfloxacin (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 53-141286), enoxacin (Japanese Patent Application Lai... | {
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The prior art golf bag carriers generally disclose dual bag carriers, however, the carriers are not interchangeable for either one bag or two bags.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,061,360 of Evans et al discloses a collapsible golf bag cart for two golf bags, but it does not swing back from a carrier for two bags to a carrier for a si... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an electrical card connector mounted onto a printed circuit board (PCB), and particularly to an electrical card connector having an improved shell.
2. Description of the Prior Art
As the popularity of notebook computers increases, integrated circuit (IC) cards ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus and, more particularly, to an image forming apparatus which has a plurality of image carriers and is capable of superimposing and forming images (e.g., images for each color), which are formed on each of image carriers, on a recording... | {
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Decrease in life of an optical apparatus such as LCD panels and polarization plates has become increasingly a serious problem in recent years as they are used in LCD projector operated at high brightness and high contrast. To cope with this problem, each of the polarization plates is supported by a transparent substrat... | {
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Fluid streams derived from natural gas reservoirs, petroleum or coal, often contain a significant amount of acid gases, for example carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon disulfide (CS2), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), carbonyl sulfide (COS), or mercaptans as impurities. Said fluid streams ... | {
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An envelope is a container, usually made of folded paper, which is designed to enclose documents or other substantially flat objects for the purposes, among others, of keeping these contents together and preventing their inspection by others during transmission to a recipient. The most commonly used envelopes, such as ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an internal sealing assembly for sealingly connecting a pair of pipes and, in one embodiment, relates to a secondary sealing assembly that can be installed within an existing pipeline about an existing pipe-to-pipe connection to seal a leak.
2. Description of t... | {
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard specification defines the physical (PHY) layer and Media Access Control (MAC) layer for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), cf. IEEE Standard for Information technology—Tele-communications and information exchange between systems. Local and ... | {
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Some applications require the use of electrical equipment in hazardous locations where exposure to chemical, flammable and/or combustible conditions is likely. Electrical equipment used in such hazardous locations requires construction to, and compliance with, exacting standards to lessen the chance of electrical equip... | {
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The present invention relates to an in-line roller skate.
Conventional skates are substantially constituted by a rigid shoe associated with a frame for supporting either wheels or an ice-skating blade.
The main drawback of conventional skates is the fact that the rigidity of the shoe or of the frame for supporting the ... | {
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1. Technical Field
This disclosure relates generally to integrated circuit layouts and design, and more particularly to methods, systems, and products for generating an area efficient power switch cell of a cell library and for generating an integrated circuit layout for fabrication.
2. Description of the Related Art
I... | {
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Field of Invention
The present invention generally relates to data migration. More specifically, the present invention relates to determining mail archive ownership.
Description of the Related Art
Data migration can be viewed as a process for transferring data between one or more computer systems and storage devices. D... | {
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(1) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit. More particularly, the present invention relates to the power supply path for a semiconductor integrated circuit.
(2) Description of the Prior Art
FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram illustrating the structure of a memory cell of a ... | {
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This invention relates to an improved process for reducing sulfur content of solid carbonaceous fuels, such as coal and lignite, to provide gas, liquid, and solid fuel products which can be burned without further treatment or use of special devices to produce stack gases which meet pollution regulations regarding sulfu... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for signal processing and has been developed with particular but not exclusive attention paid to possible applications in the framework of systems which envisage reduction in the quantity of data required for representing, in a digital for... | {
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CGRP (Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide) is a naturally occurring 37-amino acid peptide that is generated by tissue-specific alternate processing of calcitonin messenger RNA and is widely distributed in the central and peripheral nervous system. CGRP is localized predominantly in sensory afferent and central neurons and ... | {
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The lead-acid battery is the oldest and most popular type of rechargeable energy storage device, dating back to the late 1850's when initially conceived by Raymond Gaston Plante. Despite having a very low energy-to-weight ratio and a low energy-to-volume ratio, the lead-acid battery can supply high-surge currents, allo... | {
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Vehicles require a transmission to convert rotational forces as well as rotational speeds. The purpose of a vehicle transmission is to transfer the tractive force of a drive unit. The present invention pertains to a method for operating an automatic transmission. In terms of the present invention, all transmissions wit... | {
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Embodiments described herein relate generally to alternative fuels, chemicals, and engineered fuel feedstocks, and in particular, to systems and methods for producing an engineered fuel feedstock having significantly reduced chlorine content. The engineered fuel feedstock may include additives to control emissions, pre... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a longitudinal adjuster on the core or shaft of an actuating-pull mechanism, preferably for gear-shift cables of motor vehicles, in accordance with the first patent claim.
The invention can be used wherever it is intended to transmit forces or movements between compone... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to inkjet printers and, more particularly, to an improved method and system for guiding recording media, such as paper, through a printer.
2. Description of the Related Technology
In typical inkjet printing processes, droplets of ink are emitted from ink jet nozzles, or a... | {
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Many types of meters have been developed for measuring the flow of a medium within a pipe or other flow passage. One common type of flow meter uses a sensor external to the flow passage for responding to movement of a part within the flow passage to produce an electrical signal from which a representation of flow rate ... | {
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Face-to-face conversation is universally recognized as the preferred form of human communication. For decades this fact has been the impetus for the development of video teleconferencing systems. In a typical teleconferencing system, a pair of terminals, each with a video camera and a video display device, a microphone... | {
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This invention relates to feedback networks for linear amplifiers. One of the major disadvantages of linear solid state amplifiers is that intermodulation distortion performance is poor in comparison to their vacuum tube counterparts. It is generally difficult to apply RF feedback around multiple stage of broadband sol... | {
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A gel base prepared by increasing the viscosity of an aqueous carboxyvinyl polymer solution with a basic viscosity-increasing agent such as sodium hydroxide, triethanolamine, diisopropanolamine, etc. has such excellent characteristics that (i) since the stock polymer has a high purity and uniform quality, it can give a... | {
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Bath towels, beach towels, washcloths or the like are typically produced from fabric that is stored in roll form on a spool. The fabric is unrolled from the spool in a machine direction, cut into sections, and bonded in the machine direction and a cross direction to form at least partially finished products.
The web is... | {
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The present invention relates to FM stereo, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for reproducing FM stereo sounds in a manner to reduce noise and distortion, while preserving the quality of the reproduced stereo sounds.
It is well known that when FM radio transmission is reproduced in the mono mode, there is... | {
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Test tools are used to verify the correct functioning of software and modifications to existing software. Verifying the correctness of software may involve numerous tasks, including the testing of concurrency. Concurrency testing is a core requirement in the software industry and is accomplished through the execution o... | {
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Bio-threat detectors are used to monitor the ambient air to detect the presence of potentially harmful pathogens. In general, air is drawn into a detection apparatus, or trigger, where the particulates in the air are evaluated. Airflow into the detection apparatus is typically generated by a fan within the apparatus. T... | {
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Acyltransferases comprise a large family of enzymes that regulate biological processes by catalyzing the transfer of acyl groups to a wide variety of biological and chemical substrates, including proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids (E. C. Webb ed., Enzyme Nomenclature, pp. 178-201, ©1992 Academic Press, Inc. San Diego,... | {
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It is known that a plasma can be ignited by subjecting a gas to a sufficient amount of microwave radiation. Plasma ignition, however, is usually easier at gas pressures substantially less than atmospheric pressure. However, vacuum equipment, which is required to lower the gas pressure, can be expensive, as well as slow... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a liquid crystal display, and more particularly to an array substrate for a liquid crystal display and a fabricating method thereof.
2. Discussion of the Related Art
Generally, a liquid crystal display (LCD) controls a light transmittance using an electric field to di... | {
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Semiconductor devices are commonly found in modern electronic products. Semiconductor devices vary in the number and density of electrical components. Discrete semiconductor devices generally contain one type of electrical component, e.g., light emitting diode (LED), small signal transistor, resistor, capacitor, induct... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a method of weighing powder/chip and, more particularly, it relates to a method of feeding powder/chip to a weighing vessel efficiently and accurately.
2. Prior Art
As disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 55-22178, a method is known in which cereal g... | {
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The present invention relates to a shredder for shredding documents or the like.
Documents or the like bearing confidential matters are, after their utilization, shredded so as to make the contents of the documents or the like illegible so that disclosure of the contents of the documents or the like is prevented.
Conve... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The field of the invention is flexible pipe for conducting petroleum or other fluids subsea or on land and the method of forming same.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventional bonded flexible pipe is described in American Petroleum Institute document API S... | {
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This invention relates to an improvement in conventional wet-spinning processes for producing acrylic filaments whereby improved spinning performance (e.g. less filament breaks and wraps) and increased productivity in terms of pounds of filaments per hour are obtained. The term "acrylic", as used herein, means any long... | {
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Cleaning is a task that has been with people for many centuries and it seems probable that people have searched for new and improved cleaning tools just about as long as they have been involved in cleaning processes. However, there remains a need for a new and improved cleaning tool particularly well adapted to cleanin... | {
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A tunneling technology is a manner of transferring data between networks through Internet infrastructure, and the data transferred by using a tunnel may be a data frame or a data package of different protocols. The tunneling technology obtains a tunnel packet by encapsulating a tunnel packet header on an outer layer of... | {
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The present invention is directed to an equalizer that substantially eliminates ghosts in signals processed by a receiver.
Ghosts are produced in a receiver usually because a signal arrives at the receiver through different transmission paths. For example, in a system having a single transmitter, the multipath transmis... | {
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VECSELs typically comprise a first end mirror and an active region formed in a layer sequence, and a second end mirror arranged separated from the layer sequence and forming an external cavity of the laser. In standard setups the external cavity is composed of macroscopic optical elements, which are very bulky and need... | {
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I. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for surveilling articles and in particular to improvements in a method and apparatus for detecting or preventing the theft of articles and more particularly it concerns the method and apparatus capable of distinguishing labels from all other obj... | {
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This invention relates to a steering mechanism for use with medical catheters or other devices which need to be positioned in difficult locations.
In many medical procedures, it is necessary to position a catheter at a location within a patient's body. A typical emplacement for the distal end of a catheter might be wit... | {
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It is desirable to be able to move a mirror head, which holds a mirror, with respect to a mounting bracket on a motor vehicle away from or back towards the mounting bracket. This enables the mirror head to be positioned either close to the side of the motor vehicle, or to be extended away from the motor vehicle. In its... | {
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This invention relates to a process for the preparation of actinide dioxides, especially uranium dioxide, plutonium dioxide and neptunium dioxide as well as to a novel composition of matter resulting from this process. Those concerned with the production of nuclear fuel have been constantly searching for processes for ... | {
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Waste and water companies and municipalities often install buried components accessible from roadways. Buried valves, pipes, and lines are often accessed via access pipes that extend downwardly from street surfaces. Removable debris caps at the ends of the access pipes protect the buried components from dirt, rocks, de... | {
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Providing radiation therapy to patients diagnosed with cancer includes creating a radiation treatment plan. Often, where the cancer is localized in the patient's anatomy, such as in a tumor, the creation of the radiation treatment plan involves participation by medical personnel for solving a difficult geometric proble... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an information reproducing apparatus for reproducing digital information recorded on a recording disk such as a DVD, and more particularly to an information reproducing apparatus capable of prohibiting reproduction of digital information that has been illegally... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to the field of sound mixing and in particular to methods and apparatus for mixing sound, such as music, in a distributed network environment such as the internet.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A conventional sound or music studio includes sound recording rooms where ar... | {
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A conventional umbrella as shown in FIG. 1 includes: a rib means 2 having a top rib 21 pivotally secured to an upper notch 11 fixed on an upper portion of a central shaft 1, a stretcher rib 22 pivotally secured to a runner 12 slidably held on the central shaft 1, whereby upon opening of the umbrella, a bottom periphery... | {
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Dynamic Random Access Memory utilizes capacitors to store bits of information within an integrated circuit. A capacitor is formed by placing a dielectric material between two electrodes formed from conductive materials. A capacitor's ability to hold electrical charge (i.e., capacitance) is a function of the surface are... | {
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This disclosure relates to a gas turbine engine, and more particularly to a vane for cooling thermal protection of a blade outer air seal (BOAS).
Gas turbine engines typically include a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section. During operation, air is pressurized in the compressor section and is m... | {
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a. Field of the Invention
The present application claims the benefit of priority to United Kingdom Application No. 0417765.5 filed Aug. 10, 2004, hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
This invention relates to a well casing straddle assembly, that is to say an assembly comprising a liner and at least one pa... | {
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This invention relates to breathing apparatus and is especially but not exclusively concerned with diving headgear for use in return-line or push-pull diving systems in which pressurized breathable gas is fed to the headgear through a supply hose, used gas is withdrawn from the headgear through an exhaust hose and pres... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to pseudonoise (PN) spread spectrum communication systems, and, more particularly, to apparatus and a method for generating very long composite PN codes and a method and apparatus for minimizing the time of acquisition of such very long composite codes.
2. Desc... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an electrical rotating machine, and more specifically, to an improved electrical rotating machine in which a local rise of temperature in a stator core is reduced.
2. Description of the Related Art
Electrical steel sheets are die-cut into substantially sector s... | {
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Convenience packaging, particularly for foodstuffs and bulk materials, frequently involves the use of bags or pouches. These bags can be advantageously constructed with side or bottom gussets to make them able to be set upright on a horizontal supporting surface, for filling, display or storage. It is common to refer t... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a lens structure for a vehicle radio or the like which includes a clear lens surrounded by an opaque field.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Lens structures of the type to which the present invention appertains are in common use for vehicle radios. The lens structure i... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention pertains to free wheeling tires particularly useful in a gravity roller conveyor, and the like having the ability to retard accelerated movement of the load carried by the wheels.
2. Discussion of the Prior Art
In many instances it is desireable to prevent increased rotational v... | {
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The present invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus; and more particularly, the invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus which is suitable for performing treatment, such as etching, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), spattering, ashing, rinsing or the like, on a sample of a semiconductor substrate, s... | {
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Electronic devices can enable computer vision by duplicating the abilities of human vision by electronically perceiving and understanding an image. In some cases, the electronic device will follow or track the movements of a set of interest points or objects in an image sequence. In particular, the electronic device ca... | {
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Lignite having high moisture content has been treated by immersion in steam or hot water under pressure and had its moisture content reduced to from 16% to 20%. Lignite so treated does not slack, but has never been used in blast furnaces to produce pig iron, it has only been used in a single water gas plant in Europe. | {
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Networks can be comprised of a multiplicity of network devices such as servers, routers, hosts, switches, repeaters, hubs, encryption devices and backup devices such as media libraries.
In many systems, data may be sent over a network from multiple hosts on the network to a library for storage. Such hosts may include c... | {
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It is known in the art to maintain state machines, typically consisting of state tables, defining the states of elements associated with a system. An example of such a state machine is the collection of state tables forming Postal State Tables (PSTs) stored in flash memory and utilized in postal printing devices. The P... | {
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Charged particle beam columns are typically employed in scanning electron microscopy (SEM), which is a known technique widely used in the manufacture of semiconductor wafers, being utilized in a CD metrology tool, the so-called CD-SEM (critical dimension scanning electron microscope), and a defect review SEM. In a SEM,... | {
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A number of systems and programs are offered on the market for the design, the engineering and the manufacturing of objects. CAD is an acronym for Computer-Aided Design, e.g. it relates to software solutions for designing an object. CAE is an acronym for Computer-Aided Engineering, e.g. it relates to software solutions... | {
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This invention relates to power transmission systems and more particularly to a continuously variable transmission (CVT) of the hydraulic type.
A CVT system allows an engine to operate at its optimal fuel consumption point. The standard transmission is capable of a predetermined number of gear ratios as the torque dema... | {
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This invention relates to a method for production of catalyst compositions useful for addition reactions of olefinically unsaturated monomers, e.g., polymerization. The invention is particularly useful in coordination polymerization processes that utilize supported compounds for slurry or gas phase polymerization of ol... | {
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The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling access to and corruption of information in a computer system.
PCT/GB91/00261 (WO91/13403) also by the present inventors (the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference) discloses a method and apparatus particularly concerned with the d... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention concerns a defoaming apparatus for use in the aerobic fermentative production of useful chemical and biological substances, as well as methods of defoaming and controlling aerobic fermentation cultures in the production of useful chemical and biological substances.
2. Dis... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates in general to emission control systems mounted in a motor vehicle, and more particularly to a vapor diffusing device which effectively diffuses, into the open air, the vapor which is inevitably drained from a carbon canister mounted in an engine room of the motor ... | {
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Scanning probe microscopes (SPMs), such as atomic force microscopes (AFMs) and scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs), are valuable tools for probing the topography and surface properties of materials. At high scan speeds, the scanner that drives the motion of the sample may resonate, causing resonance oscillations to a... | {
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The invention in particular relates to an apparatus and method operating on the line-scan principle, in which three dimensional objects are caused to move through a scanning zone and imaging information collected. This principle is widely employed for example without limitation in the security industry, to scan objects... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the assembly of sheets to be fabricated into bent laminated windshields. Conventionally, bent laminated windshields for automobiles are fabricated using several separate steps. The first step involves bending a doublet, or a pair of glass sheets, into shapes th... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to display systems for airplane cockpits or other vehicles, and more particularly, to a rear projection digital display system which allows a high level of information to be selectively displayed regarding such data as travel path, travel conditions, veh... | {
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1. Field of Invention
This invention relates to an antenna using stripline for microwaves.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Conventionally, a stripline antenna for micro waves is electrically fed at the center of an antenna array 1 as shown in FIG. 1. The two feeding points are indicated as 2 and 2' respectively, and th... | {
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An organic electroluminescence device (hereinafter, occasionally abbreviated as “organic EL device”) using an organic substance is expected to be used as a cost-friendly full-color display device (solid light-emitting device) with a large area and thus many developments thereof have been made. A general organic EL devi... | {
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There are conventional devices for recognizing character lines printed on media surfaces such as personal checks. For example, well-known are character recognition devices in which a character portion is detected from binary image data, the character portion is segmented along the bounding rectangular frame, character ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention refers to a tank discharge device which has quantified saving of water in toilets, performing a double discharge controlled by only one push button.
This invention is within the water saving systems in toilet deposits and tanks, and within them, among the purely mechanica... | {
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In offshore installations, such as subsea production installations, there is an increasing use of electrically powered subsea equipment. Such subsea equipment may include, e.g., compressors, pumps, and any other electrically powered subsea equipment.
The electrical power to be distributed to such subsea equipment may b... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to a system and method for monitoring the performance of fuel cells in a fuel cell stack and, more particularly, to a system and method for monitoring the performance of fuel cells in a fuel cell stack that includes a sensor for detecting an undesirable conditi... | {
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Plasticized polyvinyl chloride (P-PVC) is useful in numerous applications such as film, geomembranes, hose and tubing, and upholstery. Its most important attributes are toughness (high tensile strength), flexibility (low modulus), and elastic recovery (essentially no yield point).
The elastic recovery of a polymer, par... | {
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The present application is directed to a biological treatment system and an assembly for supporting biomass derived from bacteria present in or seeded into the sludge or wastewater for treating the sludge or wastewater. More particularly, the present application is directed to an assembly of generally structural corrug... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates, generally, to therapeutic systems, apparatus and methods. Particularly, the invention relates to occupational and sensory integration therapeutic systems, apparatus and methods for infants and children.
2. Background Information
Existing technology in this field ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a nonwoven fabric for printing, which has good tearing strength and can provide printing finish as good as an art paper at a low cost.
2. Prior Art
Conventionally, various types of nonwoven fabrics have been known as material which could be used in many industr... | {
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Test strips (e.g., biosensors) containing reagents are often used in assays for determining the concentration of an analyte in a fluid sample. Testing and self-testing for the concentration of glucose in blood is a common use for test strips. One method of obtaining a blood sample and analyzing the sample for determini... | {
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1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to an electro-optical device substrate used for manufacturing an electro-optical device, such as a liquid crystal device, and to an electro-optical device manufactured using the electro-optical device substrate. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of t... | {
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Adaptive predictive coding (APC) methods are widely used for high quality coding of speech signals. The details are discussed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/603,104 by the present inventor and commonly assigned to COMSAT and which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,206,884 on Apr. 27, 1993. That application is herein in... | {
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Amyloidosis is a series of diseases where proteins forming a fiber structure are deposited in the whole-body organs to induce functional disturbance and includes various diseases such as Alzheimer dementia and prion disease (Non-patent reference 1).
Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy (FAP) is autosomal dominant, hered... | {
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A liquid crystal display device has two substrates. One is a TFT substrate in which pixel electrodes, thin film transistors (TFTs), and the like are formed in a matrix form. The other is a counter substrate disposed opposite to the TFT substrate, in which color filters and the like are formed at positions corresponding... | {
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Vehicle control systems may be configured to start an engine assuming a given intake manifold volume. However, interactions between vacuum levels in a brake booster and the intake manifold pressure at engine starts can cause variability in the air charge, and consequently air-to-fuel ratio at the engine starts. As such... | {
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PCR is an efficient and cost effective way to copy or ‘amplify’ small segments of DNA or RNA. Using PCR, millions of copies of a section of DNA are made in just a few hours, yielding enough DNA required for analysis. This method allows clinicians to diagnose and monitor diseases using a minimal amount of sample, such a... | {
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Customers of various services often access information from the service providers via interactive voice response (IVR) systems. For example, a customer may call a particular telephone number, interact with an IVR system via voice communications and obtain the desired information. However, when the desired information i... | {
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A machine plant, such as for example a power plant for generating electricity, has an electrical generator and at least one turbine, the turbine driving the generator. For this purpose, the turbine and the generator are arranged on a common shaft train. It is possible to provide couplings in the shaft train in order to... | {
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Filling elements and filling machines for filling bottles or similar containers, in particular also for pressure-filling, are known in different embodiments.
For the purpose of the invention, the term “pressure-filling” is to be understood generally to mean a filling method wherein before the actual filling phase, i.e.... | {
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